Display device



A. DIETSCHE, JR

DISPLAY DEVICE Filed 1106\21, 19 2 jMk/MM k is Attorng.

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Patented Dec. 16, 1924.

UNITED STATES A DOLPE DIETSCHE, '13., OF NEW YORK, -N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHTO COMPANY, on NEW YORK, N. at,

A CORFORATION OF NEW YOBK.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed November 21, 1922. serial No. 602,879.

To all whom it, may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH Dm'rscms, Junior, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Queens, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to displa devices, and particularly to such devices 0 the class specified as are formed of sheet material and adapted for erection in display position. The object of my improvements is to provide a display device of simple construction and pleasing appearance, and which may be laid flat for packing and shipping, and erected in display position by simple means.

With these ends in view my improvements comprise features illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the drawing accompanying this specification, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device 1n erected condition. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device spread .out in one plane. Fig-3 is a perspective view of a.- modified form of my improvements. The scale of Figs. 1 and 2 is the same. The scale of Fig. 3 is less than that of the other figures. My improved device is preferably made of cardboard and preferably of one piece thereof, although it will be' obvious that it may be formed equally well of several pieces hinged together along the several dotted lines of Fig. 2. The display ortion preferably comprises an upright mi -panel or mid-portionfl and opposite side portions or panels 3, 4 articulated thereto, preferably along parallel vertical lines 5, 6. These three upright panels may be of any fanciful contour such for instance as the dra ed shield shown. Said side panels 3, l pre erably extend below and under the bottom of said middle panel and, when the device is laid flat in one plane, may meet, as at 7.

Articulated at 8, 9 to the lower edges of said vice ma be economically formed from one sheet 0 material by a suitable cut,or incision of T shape and suitable scoring. For locking the device in erect position, base members 10, 11 are provided with coacting locking means, herein illustrated as semiclrcular ears 12, 13, cut from said base members respectively.

The operation of erecting the device will be obvious from the drawing. Sufiice it to state that base members'lO, 11 are folded forwardly along lines 8, 9, respectively,'and then panels 3, 4 are folded slightly toward each other, thereby permitting base members 10, 11 to overlap, when cars 12, 13 may be interlocked as shown in Fig. 2, thereby securely holding the device in erected pos1- tion.

In the modification of Fig. 3, the lines of articulation 5, 6 are indefinite and the three uprlght portions 2, 3 and 4 lie in a general transverse curve rather than in abruptly divided planes. Also the base members 10, 11 have the overlapping portions of Fig. 1 omitted, whereby said base members abut. They may be held in abutting relation by some convenient means, such for instance as gummed strip 14.

I claim: I

1. An integral display device of sheet material including in combination a display panel, the opposite lower side portions of said display panel having inreaching extensions horizontally severed from said panel at its mid-portion and vertically severed from one another, and base members horizontally articulated to said opposite lower side portions respectively, the inner ends of said opposite lower side portions being adapted to extend rearwardly of said panel mid-portion and said panel mid-portion being adapted to be suspended over said base members when the device is in erected position.

2. An integral display device of sheet material including in combination an upright display-panel, the opposite side portions of said display anel being vertically articulated to its mid-portion, the lower portions of said opposite side portions respectively having inreaching extensions horizontally severed from said panel mid-portion and vertically severed from one another, and base members horizontally articulated to the lower edges respectively of said oppoadapted to be suspended over said base members when the device is in erected position.

3. An integral display device of sheet material including in combination an upright display member, said display member hav-. ing a T shaped incision in the lower midportion thereof whereby the opposite lower side portions of said display member have inreaehing extensions horizontally detached fromsaid display member at its mid-portion and vertically detached from one another,

and base members horizontally articulated to said opposite lower side portions re speetively, the inner ends of said opposite lower side portions being adapted to extend rearwardly of said display member midportion and said displayme'mber midportion being adapted to be suspended over said base memberswhen the device is in ADOLPH DIETSCHE JR.- 

